Tomorrow is Forever by Cecelia Chapman, Jeff Crouch & Raphael Gonzalez

Heart Be by Rich Ferguson

heart be lavish / heart be light
heart be legal / heart be lecherous
heart be lendable / heart be leased
heart be lazy / heart be leapfrog
heart be leopard / heart be unleper’ed

heart be lankiest loudest lambent likable ladybug

L.A. poet/spoken-word performer Rich Ferguson→

Untitled by Rafael González

Dialogues 1 by Chris H. Lynn, Una Lee & Daniel Barbiero

“Dialogues 1 combines digital footage shot in Silver Spring, Maryland in May, 2020 by filmmaker Chris H. Lynn with original texts created and voiced by Lynn and South Korean poet Una Lee. The soundtrack was composed and performed by Daniel Barbiero.”

Shelter 2020 by Miriam Hitchcock

“A short animated film witnessing the pause of life brought on by the Covid-19 virus. Shelter in Place here on the west coast, in Santa Cruz, CA, is a period of quiet alert. We wait, watching remotely as the pandemic overwhelms, spreads and takes on the proportions of a national catastrophe without a coordinated Federal response. This film ends with a lie and a question. Stop motion sequences constructed by hand with drawing and cut paper, are punctuated by local landscape in live action video. A captivating soundtrack, at once dreamy and tense, is by Jason Treuting, and beautifully performed by Janus Trio.”  Miriam Hitchcock →

It Happens in Threes by Kathleen Reichelt

“A stage play excerpt, adapted for video, that focuses on a number repeating in popular culture.  Observation that moves backwards and forwards with playful and intentional absurdity on what is meaningless until ascribed with repetition.  Though mostly associated with adages of advertising, the rule of three is attributed to German psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus, who conducted experimental memory studies in the 1880s.  A scientist who started in philosophy, where this lyrical dance of objects begins.” Kathleen Reichelt →

Baroque Moments of Fire by Anabela Costa

“Exuberant details, deep colour, achieving a sense of no simplicity and no austerity in forms on movement.”  Anabela Costa →

Coffee Pot by Jamika Ajalon

“Understanding that the significance of the story also belongs to the person receiving it, I tend to let the meaning “become” as it is open to interpretation. Having said that the overall theme, as I was working on it, was around ‘letting go’. What I would like to add is that the sound track includes a mix of the unfiltered sound of the coffee pot and the notes I have interjected into the prose make up the melodic loops.” Jamika Ajalon →

Knot 8 (Mystified) by Thomas Park

“I had started thinking of the modern position on things, the way I find myself. Often it is that I am quite still and surrounded by many possibilities. I am the chooser, and choices orbit around me– things to think about, to address. Things to buy. People to see. It all felt new but somehow natural, and I wanted a music to reflect this. With “Knot8″, and others like it, we, the listeners are at the center of things, quietly observing while a set variety of sounds loop on around us. The sounds seem related but are actually chosen at random, and it is our own minds that give it this aspect of being part of a musical set.”  Thomas Park →

Objet  by Colette Copeland

“Art making in the time of covid19. In the spirit of Fluxus and Dada, I decided to use my quarantine time to photograph and film objects from my studio. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Meret Oppenheim, this assemblage was created from a dressform comprised of a tomato trellis, clothes hanger, hair ringlets, rhinestones and pink fur–all materials used in my artistic practice. As an homage to Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s portrait of Marcel Duchamp, a martini glass was added with vestiges of a pink cocktail.”  Colette Copeland→

The Moon Beneath Her Feet by Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch

“I wanted to be an astronaut. I read all the science and science fiction I could. Now I watch space mining companies go bankrupt, change names, reassemble, get new funding and go bankrupt every year. One group is on it’s fourth name change. Jeff Bezos of Amazon’s Blue Origin is his privately funded space project. Musk of Tesla developed Falcon9 Dragon. What was poetic will be stripped bare, like Duchamp’s bride, and the Moon destroyed. The $700 quintillion metal asteroid,16 Psyche, has enough minerals for earth’s needs for 3,000 years and companies are just lusting after it.”  Watchfiends→